Volunteering England, in partnership with BitC, The Media Trust, TimeBank and Youth Action Network, Youthnet, are distributing small grants in order to enable and encourage more people to participate in the Year by taking action to address the needs of their own communities. Small grants will be available to projects which: are conceived, organised and led by local people; address a local need which they have identified as important AND engage other local people in their delivery.

These projects can be: one off activities OR a series of activities or events all of which must take place during 2005. Grants of £500 - £1,500 will be available to individual people (or small groups of people) to organise a project or activity in their area which will make a difference to their community OR Grants of £1,000 - £4,000 will be available to voluntary and community sector organisations to support individual people to organise their own project or activity OR Grants of up to £6,000 are available for group of 2 or more organisations working in partnership with each other to support individual people to organise their own project or activity. Further details on the 2005 small grants programme will be available on the Volunteering England website from 21 January 2005. Volunteering England(London,) Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL 

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